That’s unfortunate. I believed Anthropic was playing the long game and betting on a smaller but more technically proficient userbase.
I guess I’ll be canceling my subscription largely out of principal. I doubt any open-source models are capable of handling my use case as well as Claude (typically focused on getting up to speed with various ISO/IEEE standards for the purpose of security testing) but I’m sure I’ll find a solution.
This is all you can do. Laws and regulations will not be forthcoming, and even if some are, they will be ignored or the fines paid as a cost of doing business.
Any data you give to any website or app is no longer (exclusively) yours. Use these services under that assumption.